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<h1 style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-color:white">CFP: </span><span style="font-size:14pt;background-color:white">Social Media
and Government<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">  </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></h1>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">14th Annual International Conference on Digital
Government Research</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">From e-Government to Smart Government </span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June
17-20, 2013</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">Submission deadline– February 1st, 2013</span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">TRACK 1 : SOCIAL MEDIA
AND GOVERNMENT</span></b></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">Social media use in public administration has been
growing rapidly around the world. Since the launch of web 2.0 many governments
and public officials use new online tools to communicate among themselves, and
with organizations and citizens. Recently this growing use has been creating
new challenges for government users (e.g., regulations, policies), and an
overwhelming increase in messages and other communications from citizens that
are difficult to accommodate. These outcomes have started changing government
interaction among their own personnel and with citizens and other agencies.: </span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">TRACK COORDINATORS: </span></b></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan  // </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:rsandovala@uaemex.mx"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white"><span lang="ES">rsandovala@uaemex.mx</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white"> // Universidad Autonoma del estado de Mexico // Mexico
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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">Andrea Kavanaugh  // </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"> <a href="mailto:kavan@vt.edu">kavan@vt.edu</a> 
// Virginia Tech  University // USA</span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">Track
Support: <b><i>Fabro Steibel // </i></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:ofabro@ofabro.com"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">ofabro@ofabro.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">
// Media Studies Department // Universidade Federal Fluminense // Brazil</span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">ABOUT THE CONFERENCE</span></b></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">dg.o - 14th Annual International Conference on Digital
Government Research</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">Home page: <a href="http://dgo2013.dgsna.org">http://dgo2013.dgsna.org</a></span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The dg.o conferences are an established
forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary
e-Government research, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each
year the conference combines:</span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Presentations of effective partnerships
and collaborations among government professionals and agencies, university
researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen
groups, to advance the practice of e-Government.</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Presentations and discussions on new
research on e-Government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the
intersections of information technology research, social and behavioural
science research, and the challenges and missions of government.</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)">A showcase of e-Government projects,
implementations, and initiatives that bring together the research and
practitioner communities, demonstrate the effectiveness and/or challenges of
e-Government, and offer best practices.</span></p>

<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:white">This year, the
conference program will focus on research and practice related to the adoption
of smart technologies by governments, citizens as well as private and
non-profit organizations. More and more, the adoption of smart technologies by
individuals and organizations is opening new opportunities for creating
public-private partnerships to improve current government services as well as
to create new, innovative ones.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Submissions addressing this theme could
include but are not limited to:<span style="background-color:white"> smart
technologies for governments, semantic technologies for e-government, web
services applications, </span>open and transparent government; social
media and public participation; effective use of social media by governments;
crowd sourcing for government decision making; transformative government;
models of collaboration among government, industry, NGOs, and citizens; data
integration, visualizations, and analytics for government decision making;
agile and flexible government; financial/economic/social policy making; policy
and governance issues that enable, facilitate, and promote smart government;
government productivity and effectiveness; service quality and customer-centric
e-Government; social and health infrastructure; global government collaboration
models and practices; infrastructure for data sharing among government
agencies; computing infrastructure models, cyber-security and project
management; IT-enabled government management and operations, and interest in
program execution; IT and tools to support government security; and methods to
measure and evaluate success in e-Government.</span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">WHAT CAN BE SUBMITTED</span></b></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)">We invite completed research papers,
papers describing management and practice, policy and case studies, on-going
research posters, and live demonstrations that demonstrate the use of
technology to promote innovative e-Government services. We particularly
encourage submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics. We also
encourage the submission of suggestions for panels, and pre-conference
tutorials and workshops.</span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">INSTRUCTIONS</span></b></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">Send complete Research papers and posters. Each paper
session will have the duration of 1.5 hours. Normally sessions will include 4
papers.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"><br>
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<span style="background-color:white">Research papers can only be submitted online no
later than 1st of February 2013 to the submission platform at </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(11,55,104);background-color:white"><span lang="ES">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white">. Research papers sent by email cannot be accepted.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"><br>

<br>
<span style="background-color:white">The information requested during research paper
submission include: 1) name(s), affiliation(s) and email of all the author(s);
2) contact details of presenting author (postal address, and telephone in
addition to email); 3) title of proposed presentation; 4) up to 4 keywords
(optional).</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background-color:white">Submitting authors will receive an email of
acknowledgement of successful submission receipt. Research papers will be
peer-reviewed and selected for presentation; the letter of notification will be
sent by the conference software system in early April 2013. </span></span></p>

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<span style="background-color:white">Research paper submission deadline: 1st February
2013</span></span></p>

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<span style="background-color:white">Research paper submission platform: </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(11,55,104);background-color:white"><span lang="ES">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2013</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:white"></span></p>


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<span style="background-color:white">If you have further questions on the conference,
please visit the conference website.</span> <span style="background-color:white">For
information on the Research Networks, visit: </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"> <span style="background-color:white"><a href="http://dgo2013.dgsna.org">http://dgo2013.dgsna.org</a></span></span></p>


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